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Yuna Kim was better but her base difficulty score was at a lower benchmark.
Sotnikova wasn't better but she accomplished more cause she had a higher base benchmark.
It's like comparing Tony Hawk pulling off a 1080 that wasn't very clean to a guy like Bob Burnquist pulling off a really clean switch fakey.
Which is fine and all…but then why was Asada's score so low? She had as many jumps (by some accounts 1 more than Sotnikova) plus she had the triple axel. True, Asada under rotated two of her other jumps, but Sotnikova completely stepped out of one. Sotnikova's score was a good 7 points over Asada's and was less than a point away from Kim's 150.06 from the 2010 score (.11 points to be exact). Bearing in mind that Yuna's performance in Vancouver didn't just hit the difficulty marks, but also came out completely clean.
I would buy the argument that Sotnikova's jumps were scored better because they were harder than Kim's, but they were not harder than Asada's program.
this, seriously.
I am getting so sick of everyone on tumblr saying adelina did the a harder program when mao's was the hardest.
what? I must be looking through different tumblr tags than you or something, because I've been seeing tumblr posts saying Mao was able to pull off 8 jumps in her program (including the triple axel) and how she should've gotten more points than Adelina.
btw-- main reason for quoting you, it's good to see a fellow Davis student! small world smile I was thinking how many Teabos can exist in the world....
++ amazing avi, befitting of Elsa. another ice queen. 3nodding
Kim has never been able to do triple axels, though. She just does double axels. Mao is one of only 5 women (which includes Tonya Harding, Ludmila Nelidina, Yukari Nakano, and Kimmie Meissner) who can successfully perform the triple axel because it takes a lot of lower body strength to be able to jump high enough to do 3.5 rotations required for a triple axel.
Funny thing is, if Mao hadn't under rotated one of her jumps (a triple flip-double loop-double loop combo) and changed the triple toe loop into a single toe loop at the 2010 Olympics, she might have possibly won over Yuna, since that was the same competition that Mao broke the world record for (first women to successfully pull off 3 triple axels in one competition--1 in the SP and 2 in the LP).
And thanks!
smile I've only met one other Davis student on here, haha. Nice to see another Davis student.
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